Shelomo Dov Goitein

German-jewish ethnographer, historian and arabist (1900–1985).

Born April 3rd, 1900 in Burgkunstadt.

Died February 6th, 1985 at 84 years old in Princeton.

Occupations
arabist, educator, ethnographer, historian, orientalist, university teacher

For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker